Venus Liong is one of the principal consultants in the TimeFirst team. Her expertise is in wireless communication, mobile devices and network management.

Yin Ling (Venus) had worked in Nokia Research Center as a research engineer for 7 years prior to joining TimeFirst in March 2006. She had developed proposals and became the project manager of "low power research for mobile services". She had also helped forming the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Forum Low Power Task Force in 2004 and developed related technical requirements. Later, she became one of the technical authors of the UPnP Forum Low Power Working Committee. In addition, she had also assisted in road mapping for DSLAM product by following industrial trend and development, and developed prototypes that led to new product features.

Venus has worked in various technologies concerning wireless communication and networking, including web services, UPnP, MPLS, policy based management, Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring, UMTS, CDMA2000, routing, QoS, performance evaluation, DRM and XML security. She has also done implementation in Symbian, C, C++ and Java, and has done porting from Linux to Symbian platforms.

Venus has received her BS in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison. In 2006, she has also received her MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts. In her MBA, she has focused on topics such as Business Environment in Asia, Marketing High-Tech Products and Global Strategies.

• Y. Liong, Y. Ye & F. Reynolds, “Distributed Link-Layer Wake-Up Agent System, Method, and Device for Universal Plug and Play Function with Low Power Proxy”, US Patent Application, Oct 2004.
• Y. Liong, R. Barnes & M. Li, “Using Policy-based Management to support Diffserv over MPLS Network”, US Patent App No. 60/467233, April 2003.
• Y. Liong, R. Barnes & M. Li, “Method and Apparatus for Supporting Constraint based Routing for Multi-Protocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering in Policy Based Management”, US Patent App No. 60/467066, April 2003.

• U. Paidipathi et al., “UPnP Low Power Architecture”, v0.8, Jan 16, 2006.
• J. Costa-Requenca et al., “LowPowerDevice:1 Service Template Version 1.01”, v0.8, Jan 15, 2006.
• Y. Ye et al., “LowPowerProxy:1 Service Template Version 1.01”, v0.8, Jan 15, 2006.
• J. Costa-Requenca et al., “UPnP Power Management”, v 0.1, May 2005.
• Y. Liong & Y. Ye, “Effect of UPnP advertisements on User Experience and Power Consumption”, to be published in Consumer Communications and Network Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan 2005.
• Y. Liong & M. Li, “Problems/Issues in 3G QoS Service Level Agreement Monitoring”, Internet Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 04), Las Vegas, June 2004.
• Y. Liong & S. Dixit, "Digital Rights Management for the Mobile Internet", WBC Special Issue on SW03, June 2004.
• P. Wisner, Y. Ye, Y. Liong and C. Chan, "Open Sesame: Symbian UPnP Middleware for Digital Home", Nokia Exchange of Research and Development for Business Opportunities Conference (NERD), Helsinki, Finland, March 2004.
• Y. Liong and S. Dixit, "New Results in QoS in xDSL access network", Nokia Exchange of Research and Development for Business Opportunities Conference (NERD), Helsinki, Finland, November 2000.
• I. Philp and Y. Liong, “The Scheduled Transfer OS Bypass Protocol”, 3rd Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-based Parallel Computing (CANPC'99), Orlando, Florida, January 1999.